INDEX.


26	On finding the names of spirits and geniuses original: "geniorum." In the classical and Renaissance sense, these are guardian spirits or tutelary deities assigned to a person, place, or star. from the arrangement of the celestial bodies	428
27	On the calculatory art of such names according to the tradition of the Kabbalists	430
28	How the names of spirits are sometimes derived from the very things over which they are set	433
29	On the characters and seals of spirits	436
30	Another method of forming characters, handed down by the Kabbalists	437
31	Yet another method of characters, and concerning the signs of spirits which are received by revelation alone	441
32	How good demons original: "dæmones." The author uses this in the neutral Greek sense of 'spirits' or 'intelligences,' rather than solely malevolent entities. are attracted by us, and how evil demons are overcome by us	444
33	On the bonds of spirits, and their conjurations and banishments	448
34	On the animastic original: "animastico." Referring to the 'Anima Mundi' or World-Soul, and the hierarchy of souls that animate the universe. order, and on heroes	450
35	On the mortal and earthly gods	453
36	On man, and how he was created in the image of God	455
37	On the human soul, and by what means it is joined to the body	463
38	Which divine gifts man receives from above from the individual orders of the heavens and intelligences	465
39	How celestial influences, though good by nature, are corrupted in these lower regions and become the causes of evils	468
40	That a divine character is impressed upon every man, by the power of which he can attain the performance of wonders	470
41	What becomes of man after death; various opinions	472
42	By what means Magicians and Necromancers thought they were able to call forth the souls of the dead	490
43	On the power of the human soul in the mind, the reason, and the idolumoriginal: "idolo." In Neoplatonic philosophy, this refers to the 'astral vehicle' or the lower, imaginative part of the soul that mirrors the physical form.	494
44	On the degrees of souls, and their destruction or immortality	498
45	On prophecy and furyoriginal: "furore." Refers to 'divine madness' or inspired frenzy—a state of heightened consciousness or poetic inspiration described by Plato.	501
46	On the first kind of fury, coming from the Muses	502
47	On the second kind, coming from Dionysus	505
48	On the third kind of fury, coming from Apollo	507
49	On the fourth kind of fury, coming from Venus	510
50	On rapture and ecstasy, and on the prophecies which [occur] to those who [suffer] from the falling sicknessoriginal: "morbo comitiali." An archaic term for epilepsy, which ancient and Renaissance writers often associated with spiritual sensitivity or prophetic visions.